Time to sell your old 8800GTS even 8800GTX on eBay.
According to the test, the 8800GT is only 17% than an Ultra on the test. Considering this is done on 4xAA and 8xAF, we can definitely expect better score without AA. According to a manufacturer, the 512MB 8800GT will cost you about 1,999RMB(266.2 USD).
The secret to NVIDIA’s success as a fabless semiconductor company
FiringSquad has up a behind the scenes look at NVIDIA’s Santa Clara HQ. In addition to the usual shots of the server farm, they spend several pages talking about the Silicon Failure Analysis Lab which is the secret to NVIDIA’s success as a fabless semiconductor company.
They also have shots of NVIDIA’s thermal analysis lab where they run the GPUs at 40 deg C and 0 deg C, and the Performance analysis labs.
The launch date of nVidia’s upcoming GeForce 8800 GT (G92) GPU is brought to October 29 from the original November 12, targeting AMD’s new Radeon HD 2950PRO (RV670) as the major competitor.
With G92 and RV670 having a tight performance/price ratio, Nvidia’s earlier launch should give the company an advantage in the market, noted the sources.
In addition to G92, Nvidia will also launch the G98 GPU to replace the GeForce 8600 series, however the launch date has not yet been set, added the sources.
The new G92 is the first to transition to 65nm transistors, and will support PCIe 2.0, featuring 112 stream processors and 256bit memory interface. The G92 is supposed to replace the EOL 8800GTS 320MB.
New GeForce 8 series with DirectX 10 graphics coming next year
NVIDIA plans to update its budget AMD chipset lineup with two new GeForce 8 series IGP and an IGP-less solutions – MCP78. The new MCP78 features the MCP78 U with a $70-80 build cost, MCP78 S with a $55-65 build cost and the MCP78 D with $50-55 build cost. All MCP78 solutions support one PCIe x16 Gen2 and HyperTransport 3.0. NVIDIA expects mass production of the MCP78 series in December with a January launch.
Nvidia Corp is rolling out motherboard chipsets with integrated GPU for Intel processors
Nvidia is expected to say on Tuesday that its new GeForce chips for desktop PCs give the performance of an entry-level separate graphics processor unit, as compared to traditional integrated graphics chips such as those made by Intel.
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The dream machine: Dual Quad-Core processors coupled with 8800GTX SLI.
Intel SkullTrail is an enthusiast gaming platform, which is a dual CPU system set to rival the AMD Quad FX platform. It is reported to have SLI and Quad SLI support.
Here are some extreme machines on IDF: One was powered by a 3.0GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (Yorkfield), another was a stock Skulltrail machine equipped with dual 3.4GHz quad-core processors, and the last system was a modded Skulltrail that was overclocked to 4GHz. The modded machine featured a pair of vapor phase-change coolers for the processors, liquid-cooled memory and GeForce 8800 GTX cards.
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Intel Details Graphics Processor Market Approach, Intel’s Chief Exec Talks Graphics Technology.During his keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF), the chief executive of the world’s largest maker of chips, Paul Otellini, outlined the company’s plans regarding improving performance of graphics processors. Intel confirmed that code-named Larrabee chip can process graphics, as well as a CPU with intergrated graphics core in 2010.
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The new drivers enable HD video post-processing on 8500 and 8600 series cards.
NVIDIA yesterday released new ForceWare 163.69 WHQL certified drivers for Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. The new drivers only support NVIDIA GeForce 6, 7 and 8 series graphics cards.
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Not everyone’s a gamer. When you see ATI or Nvidia release chips for cards that will cost upwards of $600, quite a few people simply shake their heads and wonder what the hell those companies are thinking. Aren’t there any next-gen cards for non-gaming PCs? You know, computers that are mainly used for Web surfing, email, and shopping online; or for business, finances, spreadsheets, and monitoring stock tickers?
Meanwhile, Windows Vista is making its best attempt to steamroll across the country, though the actual need for it is questionable at best. But some of us are early adopters, and we want the latest. Not all of us who fall into that category, however, want to pay an ungodly sum of money for a graphics card that will handle Window Vista’s frosty-cool Aero interface.
Extremetech.com tested 8 DX-10 cards and here is the quick specification:
| ATI HD 2400 Pro |
ATI HD 2600 Pro | ATI HD 2600 XT |
ATI HD 2900 XT |
Nvidia 8500 GT |
Nvidia 8600 GT |
Nvidia 8600 GTS |
Nvidia 8800 GTX |
|
| Memory | 256 DDR2 | 256 DDR2 | 512 GDDR3 | 512 GDDR3 | 256MB DDR2 (512 avail) | 256MB DDR2 (512 avail) | 256MB GDDR3 | 768 GDDR3 |
| Memory Interface | 64-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 512-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 384-bit |
| Stream Units | 40 | 120 | 120 | 320 | 16 | 32 | 32 | 128 |
| Die process | 80nm | 65nm | 65nm | 65nm | 80nm | 80nm | 80nm | 90nm |
| Core clock (MHz) | 525 | 650 | 800 | 740 | 450 | 540 | 675 | 575 |
| Shader clock (MHz) | N/A | 600 | 600 | 740 | 900 | 1180 | 1450 | 1350 |
| Memory clock (MHz) | 400 | 500 | 1000 | 1650 | 800 | 700 | 2000 | 1800 |
| Price | $70 | $100 | $130 | $400 | $80 | $150 | $200 | $580 |
3DMark06 Test
Vista Experience Index
And the conclusion:
Source: ExtremeTech.com
